The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 106
Hurrying on he sprang over all that was left of the palace walls, and the princess gave a cry of relief at the sight of him.
Who acts: princess, relief · What happens: hurry, spring, leave, give, cry, sight · To what, where: that, cry, sight, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, relief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 sprang | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 left | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sprang | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walls | compound |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cry | det |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 relief | case |
| 22 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cry | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 sight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sight | det |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spring | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | that | of the palace walls | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of wall=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the princess | a cry of relief | the sight of man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at sight=Asset | |||
| 5 | cry | relief | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sight | man | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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